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• Tweet Archives to Find Home at Library of Congress – Most of the information you find in the Library of Congress is a bit more substantial than: “Saw Jimmy at the mall. He winked. OMG!! LOLOLOL!!!” But now the Library of Congress is going to have plenty of vapid, meaningless content. Both Twitter and the LOC announced today that the entire catalog of Twitter archives is going to be digitally stored at the national library. Every single tweet since the beginning (March 2006) will be there.
• Each Facebook Fan Is Worth $3.60 Annually – Social media marketing platform company Vitrue has determined that the average value of a Facebook ‘fan’ is about $3.60 in equivalent media each year. This calculation is based on having one million Fan Page fans, and is not weighted for brand recognition.
• 6 More Desktop Chat Clients That Use Facebook Connect – As a follow up to our 9 Killer Desktop Facebook Chat Clients, we looked to our readers for suggestions about more desktop chat clients that use Facebook Chat. Fortunately, our readers came through, and here is the list of 6 more clients that you download to your desktop and connect to Facebook Chat.
• Is Social Media Becoming Boring? » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg – For most, social media is new and fun. For others, though, social media is old and is falling out of favor. I’m seeing it happen of users who were happy about social media when it became hyped but are now realizing that they’re not yet ready to hold onto social media any longer. It’s boring, too challenging, and uninteresting. Catering to individuals seems to mean you need to bend to their will at every turn. Nobody wants to have to to a minority that seems to be unhappy with the content you’ve spent hours upon hours writing.
• 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg – But despite the vastness of opportunities that social media affords, it’s just one channel in a series of many. We should still tackle some realities about social media marketing before you get too excited about its potential.
• Why Banning Social Media Often Backfires – Humans have a natural proclivity to want what they cannot have. Our insatiable appetite for sharing information, combined with the nearly limitless ways to access the web have thus far frustrated the most sophisticated attempts to block access to social media services.
• Analytic.ly Provides Real-Time and Historical Twitter Analysis – For brands, developers and curious users, PeopleBrowsr is rolling out an interesting new tool. Analytic.ly helps people and companies “visualize, study and measure” Twitter conversations happening all over the web through general and custom reports and graphs.
• History Channel Launches Foursquare Campaign and a New Badge – America might be one of the youngest geopolitical nations around, but we’ve still got some interesting history to discover. Thanks to a partnership between Foursquare and the History Channel, some of the app’s users will get to learn a lot more about the history of their checkin locations over the next couple months.
• The Streamy Awards: How to Unwreck the Car [OPINION] – In the small world of made-for-the-web TV, industry figures and fans alike hoped that the 2010 Streamy Awards would prove to mainstream audiences that made-for-the-web television is the next big thing — an industry of serious artists, fine entertainment and ultimately, booming profits. After a crowd of professionals in suits and lavish dresses took their seats, it started with a Broadway-style musical number. That’s as high as Icarus flew before his wings melted off.
• Notable Makes Website Annotation Fast and Easy – otable makes it extremely easy for teams and individuals to provide effective feedback on websites.